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Permalink Reply by TM on February 3, 2014 at 3:24pm

Seems to be pretty dead right now in the oil window David. Chesapeake has punched a hole in perry township in Tusc County recently. I think they need to find new techniques and technology to get the oil window to be economic and keep the oil flowing commercially.

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Permalink Reply by Mark McGrail on February 3, 2014 at 6:13pm

Supposedly - Tracker-Lario will drill a well or two in Portage County this year.

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Permalink Reply by Ben Campbell on February 4, 2014 at 1:38am

Tracker-Lario has a pad built and a vertical drilled in Portage County.  They must be having trouble coming up with a horizontal drill rig.

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Permalink Reply by bruce c on February 4, 2014 at 11:27am

What's the location of this Tracker-Lario Well?? When was it drilled?

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Permalink Reply by Ben Campbell on February 6, 2014 at 2:52am

St Rt 225 two miles north of I-76

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Permalink Reply by James Vanderink on February 4, 2014 at 4:54am

I can't believe the two permitted Horizontal Clinton well by Enervest in Stark doesn't cause a lot of chatter on this site. I think it's very significant for that area and all of Ohio.

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Permalink Reply by Finnbear on February 4, 2014 at 5:57am

I wonder how many "stripper" well leases this will bring back to life? Ohio has thousands of them. I'm very interested to see where this goes.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Martinelli on February 4, 2014 at 7:13am

James......

 

 

What significance  does this have? 

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Permalink Reply by James Vanderink on February 4, 2014 at 8:08am

A producing Horizontal well drilled in the prolific Clinton formation of Ohio. In my eyes it would quite significant. It would put many other counties into the Horizontal drilling bonanza.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Martinelli on February 4, 2014 at 8:19am

My guess is that the Utica/PP   formation will produce more in the llong run, so why would there be widespread Clinton Horizontals drilled?  

 

Already too many acres are leased then can be drilled....so no more leasing for Clinton

formations.....it would "widen" the eventual  horizontal drilling footprint....but my guess is that it would be 10+ years for it to have any impact.

 

Hope/wish i am wrong  and the beeline it to Tusc to drill.

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Permalink Reply by pg guy on February 4, 2014 at 8:37am

So far there is no evidence that a HZ Utica well can be economic in most of the oil window. In the Clinton, where crude oil will actually come out of the sandstone into a well bore, there are millions of barrels (I seem to recall reading 65-75% of original oil in place) left behind by conventional vertical wells  To even recover another 15 -20% would be huge.  I would bet that better well completion methods will be developed that can make HZ Clinton oil wells economic, before the same happens in the Utica oil window.

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Permalink Reply by James Vanderink on February 4, 2014 at 8:47am

Well put. And that would be " significant".

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